loL... Indians stole each others land all the time. Many or most tribes loved going to war. And SURPRISE! War was not always over hunting grounds and water. War was often promoted and fomented by the young braves, who gained higher tribal status by being a successful warrior.
Higher tribal status meant more sex partners. One objective of Indian wars was to kill the other tribe’s men and to capture their women, to make into your tribe’s sex partners and wives. The young boys were turned into your tribe’s warriors. So that your tribe increased in warrior numbers to expand even more via war.
The Comanche were so dominant even the Apache moved away from their territory. The ones the Comanche didn’t kill they absorbed into their tribe or made them slaves.
What the ‘secret’ of the weakness of the Western Hemisphere inhabitants is, no one with any sense can deny, infection and virgin field epidemics. It was inevitable and impossible to avoid outside of complete avoidance, ridiculous to even postulate.
However it happened, Europe was on the receiving end of multiple plagues out of the east with the most recent being the 6th Century Justinian and the 14th - 17th Centuries being the Black Death. The explorers of the Americas were genetic descendants of the survivors. Whatever the diseases that killed 70-90% of the native inhabitants, the deaths were near certain from just being touched and breathed upon.
Remember, Mother Nature / Gaia has no compassion or care, life is and disease harvests lives!
"Lovelock, Nevada, is about eighty miles northeast of Reno. It was in a cave near here, in 1911, that guano miners found mummies, bones, and artifacts buried under four feet of bat excrement. The desiccated bodies belonged to a very tall people - with red hair.
"This is not the physical profile of your typical American Indian, to put it mildly. And in fact, the local Paiutes had legends about these towering troublemakers, whom they called the "Si-Te-Cah." According to them the redheads were a warlike people, and a number of the Indian tribes joined together in a long war against them. Eventually, the Paiutes and their allies forced the Si-Te-Cah back to their home acres, near Mount Shasta in our own California."
You’re understanding of Columbus is exceedingly flawed. Prolly not your fault if you’ve been imbibing the nonsense that’s been spoonfed to the masses over the past 100 years. If you want real unbiased resources on CC LMK.
I’ve never been convinced of the Bering Straight story.
Yesterday is history! Tomorrow is a mystery!
Oak Island Mystery is uncovering earlier inhabitant evidence.
Check with PETA.
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Nope.
They slaughtered plenty of people.
Not putting the red/brown man on a pedestal. No sirreee.
The anasazi.
I wish we were less nuanced. I don’t like nuance.
various tribes butchered each other, drove each other out of certain areas, wiped each other out, etc.
For example the Black Hills which the Sioux hold as sacred they took from the Kiowa who held them earlier. The Commanche drove out and dominated several other nearby tribes.
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"After the discovery of several Clovis sites in eastern North America in the 1930s, the Clovis people came to be regarded as the first human inhabitants who created a widespread culture in the Americas. However, several archaeological discoveries have cast significant doubt on the Clovis-first theory, including sites such as Cactus Hill in Virginia, Paisley Caves in the Summer Lake Basin of Oregon, the Topper site in Allendale County South Carolina, Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Pennsylvania, the Friedkin site in Texas, Cueva Fell in Chile, and especially Monte Verde also in Chile. The oldest claimed human archaeological site in the Americas is the Pedra Furada hearths in Brazil, controversially dated to 19,000 to 30,000 years before the earliest Clovis sites." - wiki
Oops.
How can there be any real doubt that capable seafaring societies, whether from Oceania or the Mediterranean (gasp! Euros!) have been doing criss-crossing the globe for just about forever.
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the “ancient ones”...
Thats what the Umatilla’s claimed when the “Kennewick man” was discovered.
Kennewick Man is the name generally given to the skeletal remains of a prehistoric Paleoamerican man found on a bank of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington, United States, on July 28, 1996. It is one of the most complete ancient skeletons ever found. Radiocarbon tests on bone have shown it to date from 8,900 to 9,000 calibrated years before present, but it was not until 2013 that ancient DNA analysis techniques had improved enough to shed light on the remains. In June 2015, it was announced that Kennewick Man had the most genetic similarity among living peoples to Native Americans, including those in the Columbia River region where the skeleton was found.
Also, when assessing civilizations of the past, we have a very incomplete picture, since events were not recorded in the same manner of today.
Comparing different eras for the purpose of determining current policy is usually an endeavor made by people with axes to grind.